2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

The 2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election is scheduled to be held in or before November 2023 to elect all 230 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.[1][2][3][4] Shivraj Singh Chouhan is expected to be the incumbent chief minister at the time of the election.

2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
By November 2023
All 230 seats in the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
116 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan Kamal Nath
Party BJP INC
Alliance NDA UPA
Leader since 2005 2018
Leader's seat Budhni Chhindwara
Last election 41.02%, 109 seats 40.89%, 114 seats
Seats before 130 96
Chief Minister before election

Shivraj Singh Chouhan

 Elected Chief Minister

TBD

Background

The tenure of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly is scheduled to end on 6 January 2024.[5] The previous assembly elections were held in November 2018. After the election, Indian National Congress formed the state government, with Kamal Nath becoming the Chief Minister.[6]

Political developments
See also: 2020 Madhya Pradesh political crisis

In March 2020, 22 Congress MLAs resigned from the assembly, and defected to Bharatiya Janata Party along with Jyotiraditya Scindia,[7] resulting in the collapse of the state government and resignation by Chief Minister Kamal Nath.[8] Subsequently BJP formed the state government, with Shivraj Singh Chouhan becoming Chief Minister.[9]

Schedule
Poll Event Schedule
Notification Date TBD
Last Date for filing nomination TBD
Scrutiny of nomination TBD
Last Date for Withdrawal of nomination TBD
Date of Poll TBD
Date of Counting of Votes TBD

Parties and alliances

  National Democratic Alliance
No. Party Flag Symbol Leader Photo Seats Contested
1. Bharatiya Janata Party Shivraj Singh Chouhan TBD

  United Progressive Alliance
No. Party Flag Symbol Leader Photo Seats Contested
1. Indian National Congress Kamal Nath TBD

Others
No. Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats contested
1. Communist Party of India (Marxist) Jaswinder Singh TBD
2. Bahujan Samaj Party TBD TBD
3. Communist Party of India Arvind Srivastava TBD
4. Samajwadi Party TBD TBD
5. Aam Aadmi Party[10] Rani Agarwal TBD
6. All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen[11] TBD TBD
7. Azad Samaj Party[12] Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan

References
  1. "MP: उपचुनाव के बाद अब मिशन 2023 पर फोकस, विपक्ष का किला ढहाने को बीजेपी-कांग्रेस ने बनाए प्लान". News18 India. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  2. "RSS looks for bigger role in 2023 Madhya Pradesh assembly elections - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  3. "List Of Upcoming Elections in India 2020 - 2021 | Elections.in". Elections in India. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  4. "Not leaving MP in lifetime; let's get to work for 2023: Kamal Nath". The Week. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  5. "Terms of the Houses". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 2021-10-03.
  6. "Kamal Nath sworn in as Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister". The Hindu. PTI. 2018-12-17. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2022-02-13.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. "Jyotiraditya Scindia, 22 MLAs quit Congress, leave Madhya Pradesh govt on brink of collapse". Firstpost. 2020-03-10. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  8. "Kamal Nath resigns as Madhya Pradesh CM hours before trust vote deadline". Hindustan Times. 2020-03-20. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  9. "Madhya Pradesh: Shivraj Singh Chouhan sworn in as Chief Minister". Deccan Herald. 2020-03-23. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  10. "AAP to contest Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls, field candidates in all 230 seats". India Today. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
  11. "AIMIM will contest in MP poll". The Print.
  12. "Will fight to ensure Madhya Pradesh gets tribal CM Bhim Army chief Azad". Hindustan Times.
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